ECIR
2010
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2010
Springer
Prior-art search is an important task in patent retrieval. The success of this task relies upon the selection of relevant search queries. Typically terms for prior-art queries are ...
ECIR
2010
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2010
Springer
Abstract. Users often search for entities instead of documents and in this setting are willing to provide extra input, in addition to a query, such as category information and exam...
ECIR
2010
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2010
Springer
Several Automatic Image Annotation (AIA) algorithms have been introduced recently, which have been found to outperform previous models. However, each one of them has been evaluated...
ECIR
2010
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2010
Springer
Current video search systems commonly return video shots as results. We believe that users may better relate to longer, semantic video units and propose a retrieval framework for n...
ECIR
2010
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2010
Springer
A known limitation of the Probability Ranking Principle (PRP) is that it does not cater for dependence between documents. Recently, the Quantum Probability Ranking Principle (QPRP)...
ECIR
2010
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2010
Springer
We analyse the statistical behavior of query-associated quantities in query-logs, namely, the sum and mean of IDF of query terms, otherwise known as query specificity and query mea...
ECIR
2010
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2010
Springer
Abstract. This paper explores how to predict query difficulty for contextual image retrieval. We reformulate the problem as the task of predicting how difficult to represent a quer...
CORIA
2010
14 years 2 months ago
2010
ABSTRACT. Photographic images annotation is a complex problem. Indeed, the visual characteristics of objects of a class vary with the considered instance and the shooting condition...
CORIA
2010
14 years 2 months ago
2010
Multimedia documents are increasingly used which involve to develop model to that kind of data. In this paper we present a multimedia model which combines textual and visual inform...
CORIA
2010
14 years 2 months ago
2010